Abu Ahmad al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd Allah al-ʿAskari said: “Shaybān the Grammarian was traced to a clan called the Banū Naḥw—descendants of Naḥw ibn Shums (with the shīn pronounced with a ḍamma), a branch of the Azd.

Ibn Abī Rawwād and Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Munādī, however, maintained that the man actually affiliated with that tribe was Yazīd ibn Abī Saʿīd al-Naḥwī, not Shaybān al-Naḥwī, and that view is more plausible, for Yazīd was a Tamimi, not an Azdi. (1)

A lofty isnād from Shaybān has reached me; I cited it in the section on the reports of Shuʿbah. (2)

A group who had heard from Ibn Tabarzad granted us authorization. Ibn al-Ḥuṣayn informed us; Ibn Ghaylān informed us; Abū Bakr al-Shāfiʿī narrated to us; Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Birtī narrated to us; Abū Nuʿaym narrated to us; Shaybān narrated from Yaḥyā, from Abū Salamah, from ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmr, who said:

“The sun was eclipsed during the lifetime of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, so the call was made for congregational prayer. He prayed two rakʿahs with a single prostration, then stood and prayed another two rakʿahs with a single prostration, after which he remained seated until the eclipse had cleared. ʿĀʾishah said, ‘Never did he prostrate longer, nor bow longer, than he did on that occasion.’” (3)

I say: Abū Ḥātim’s statement about Shaybān—“his reports are not to be relied upon”—is unsound.

Ibn Saʿd and others said: Shaybān died in the caliphate of al-Mahdī, in 164 AH. The same was reported by Yaʿqūb al-Sadūsī and Muṭayyin.